Assistant Deputy Attorney General Family
Career series with 3 positions across 3 levels
New Jersey classifies Assistant Deputy Attorney General as a 3-level family, 3 titles in all, built for step-by-step advancement.
Entry is typically through Assistant Deputy Attorney General 3, advancing through the ladder toward Assistant Deputy Attorney General, 1. Pay across the family spans $65,195 to $148,663, around the 86th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 5 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Law and Public Safety.
Assistant Deputy Attorney General is closely related to Deputy Executive Director Housing Authority.
Positions in This Family
- ASSISTANT DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL 3 (30456) $65,195 - $91,272/year
- ASSISTANT DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL 2 (30457) $83,210 - $116,477/year
- ASSISTANT DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL, 1 (30458) $106,195 - $148,663/year
What the Assistant Deputy Attorney General family covers
New Jersey classifies Assistant Deputy Attorney General as a 3-level series holding 3 separate title codes. Every title in it is a state title, so the employer is a state department, commission or authority rather than a county or municipality.
Legal titles in New Jersey split into two groups that look similar and are not. Deputy attorneys general, public defenders and public advocates are unclassified: they are appointed, not examined, and their pay is negotiated inside a schedule rather than earned by stepping through it. Hearing officers, appeals examiners and paralegal support titles are ordinary classified positions filled the usual way. Both groups cluster in Law and Public Safety, the Office of Administrative Law and the agencies that run their own hearings, so the work is closer to administrative adjudication than to courtroom practice.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Sorted by pay instead of by title number, the Assistant Deputy Attorney General family stacks up as follows. Note that the numbers in these titles do not run in pay order. In this family a lower number sits higher on the ladder, which is a New Jersey convention that catches people out when they read a title list top to bottom.
- Assistant Deputy Attorney General, 1 — $106,195 to $148,663 (frozen schedule)
- Assistant Deputy Attorney General 2 — $83,210 to $116,477 (frozen schedule)
- Assistant Deputy Attorney General 3 — $65,195 to $91,272 (frozen schedule)
The distance from the bottom of Assistant Deputy Attorney General 3 to the top of Assistant Deputy Attorney General, 1 is $83,468, an increase of about 128% over the entry minimum. 3 of the 3 titles in the family sit on a schedule whose rates are frozen, so the published figure there is the schedule of record rather than a guide to actual pay.
What each title does
The specifications themselves are the clearest guide to what separates these titles. Here is how each one opens.
- Assistant Deputy Attorney General 3: Under the general direction of a Deputy Attorney General 1, Deputy Attorney General 2, or other designated official within the Department of…
- Assistant Deputy Attorney General 2: Under the general direction of a Deputy Attorney General 1 or other designated official in the Department of Law and Public Safety, undertakes the…
- Assistant Deputy Attorney General, 1: Under administrative direction of the Director, Division of Law, or other executive officer in the Department of Law and Public Safety plans…
Getting in: the stated requirements
None of the specifications in this family names a degree requirement, which places these titles among the New Jersey positions open to applicants without formal higher education. On how the jobs are filled: 3 are non-competitive, appointed on proof of the stated qualifications rather than by examination.
Who actually employs these titles
5 people appear on the state payroll under 1 of these title, at 1 agency. Law and Public Safety alone accounts for about 100% of them.
- Law and Public Safety — 5 employees
Median actual pay for Assistant Deputy Attorney General, 1 is $189,750, which is what people in the title are really paid rather than the published band.
State payroll only, deduplicated by payroll title; local employers file separately, so a family with local codes looks smaller here than it is. How this is counted.
How the pay is set
Titles in this family are paid on the M salary schedule. See every step in that schedule.
Where these jobs exist
Hiring for this family runs through state service. Departments, commissions and boards fill these titles from eligible lists built by the Civil Service Commission, so the route in is an announcement and a filing deadline rather than a posting you apply to directly. What state jurisdiction means, and a breakdown of who employs what.
Related titles elsewhere in the plan
Nearby in the plan, ranked by how distinctive the shared terms are rather than by how many words happen to match.
- Attorney General (state jurisdiction)
- Deputy Attorney General 5 — in the Deputy Attorney General family
- Assistant Attorney General ($106,195 to $148,663, state jurisdiction)
- First Assistant Attorney General ($129,079 to $180,723, state jurisdiction)
- Attorney Assistant ($63,663 to $92,953, state jurisdiction)
- Adjutant General (state jurisdiction)
Common questions about Assistant Deputy Attorney General jobs
How many separate Assistant Deputy Attorney General classifications does New Jersey have?
The Assistant Deputy Attorney General family holds 3 title codes arranged across 3 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
How much is an Assistant Deputy Attorney General paid?
Published salary data for this family runs from $65,195 at the bottom of Assistant Deputy Attorney General 3 to $148,663 at the top of Assistant Deputy Attorney General, 1. Those are schedule figures. Where the title appears on the state payroll, actual median pay is listed on the page above.
Is there a civil service test for Assistant Deputy Attorney General?
Not for the non-competitive titles in this family, of which there are 3. A non-competitive appointment is made on proof that you meet the stated requirements, without a competitive examination, though the position is still in the classified service with its own protections.
What are the requirements to become an Assistant Deputy Attorney General?
No degree requirement is parsed from the specifications in this family, which puts these titles among the New Jersey civil service jobs reachable without formal higher education.
Which agencies employ Assistant Deputy Attorney General staff?
State payroll records show 5 people in this family across 1 agency, with Law and Public Safety the largest at 5. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.
Is Assistant Deputy Attorney General 1 higher or lower than Assistant Deputy Attorney General 3?
In this family the lower number is the more senior title. New Jersey's level numbering does not run in pay order, and reading the titles by number alone will give you the ladder upside down. The list above is sorted by what each title actually pays.